Archive for the 'Surgery' Category
August 26th, 2009
Last friday 8/21 around 6pm I felt the stomach pain again, that same pain I felt 5 month ago in California that eventually got me into a hospital. The stomach had been feeling funny the entire afternoon, not sure how to describe it, just funny. I didn’t feel like eating or drinking anything because the [...]
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August 26th, 2009
Hey I just had bowel movement at around 1:10pm and unloaded quite some amount!! Whew!! That means my digestive system is flowing alright and maybe the pain felt yesterday was just it working hard processing and moving food. Thank goodness!! btw the stomach/ab area has no pain normally but when pressed, there is slight pain [...]
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August 25th, 2009
I feel the pain again around 7pm, it’s not very strong but it’s there. I tried not sitting down the entire day and keep walk around the house so to keep the intestine moving. To honest I am afraid of the obstruction coming back again in 1 day. That would most likely means surgery is [...]
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August 24th, 2009
Got back from 3 days of stay at the hospital for bowel/intestine obstruction. What a good feeling be home!
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August 4th, 2008
I have been exercising every other day for the past few weeks which is really good. I do some push ups, sit ups, bicep curls, shoulder raises, and jumping jacks. Just recently, my friend posted online that he’s on P90X. I was curious and so I googled it. It turned out to be an extreme [...]
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June 9th, 2008
Tomorrow will be the day that I’ll have my last procedure, which is to remove the medi-port implant on my right upper chest used for chemotherapy injections. That mean I won’t be needing it no more and that I am really done with cancer treatment! I am pretty excited the last couple of days as [...]
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May 5th, 2008
Today is 2 year anniversary from the day I was diagnosed with cancer and had my first surgery! Again I totally forgot about it until Henry and Jenny mentioned it. I was taking sailing class today and while filling out the form and entering today’s date, I thought it looked familiar haha I guess it’s [...]
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March 17th, 2008
The red spot has gone away but there are occasionally itchy rashes here and there around the horizontal incision line that disappear after a while. I finally figure out that applying some lotion along the incision line fixes the “problem”. The skin just gets too dry after shower in the winter. btw, the nurses did [...]
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January 16th, 2008
Say hello to my 3rd nipple haha It’s a medi-port used for chemotherapy. Bascially it’s anAlcuni siti, come il giochi di casino Pacific, ti limitano a un gioco, ma ancora puoi giocare numerosi giochi simultaneamente giocando in due siti differenti simultaneamente altri siti come il poker Empire, ti permettono giocare fino a tre giochi simultaneamente. [...]
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January 15th, 2008
This breathing device is given to the patient after the surgery for the breathing exercises. It keeps the patient from getting pneumonia if I remembered correctly. Basically you inhale and then exhale into the tube, keeping inhaling steady to hold this floating object in between these two markers. The cylindrical body shows you the volume [...]
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